Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system in the V programming language.
Join the Discord chat (#vinix-os channel).
You can get a continuously updated ISO of Vinix here.
- mlibc
- bash
- text mode
- gcc
- g++
- nano
- vim
- builds.vinix-os.org
- storage drivers
- ext2
- V
- V-UI
- compositor
- network
- Intel HD graphics driver (linux port)
- Keeping the code as simple and easy to understand as possible, while not sacrificing performance and prioritising code correctness.
- Making a usable OS which can run on real hardware, not just on emulators or virtual machines.
- Targetting modern 64-bit architectures, CPU features, and multi-core computing.
- Maintaining good source-level compatibility with Linux to allow to easily port programs over.
- Exploring V capabilities in bare metal programming and improving the compiler in response to the uncommon needs of bare metal programming.
- Having fun.
The following is an OS-agnostic list of packages needed to build Vinix. Skip to a paragraph for your host OS if there is any.
GNU make, GNU patch, GNU tar, GNU gzip, GNU coreutils, git, mtools, meson, ninja, m4, texinfo, gcc/clang, nasm, python3, pip3, zic, wget, xorriso, and qemu to test it.
sudo apt install build-essential nasm git mtools meson m4 texinfo python3 python3-pip manpages wget xorriso qemu-system-x86
sudo pacman -S base-devel nasm git mtools meson python python-pip tzdata wget xorriso qemu-arch-extra
This build system does not officially support macOS. Run this in an x86_64 Linux VM or real hardware.
It is necessary to fetch xbstrap from pip3:
sudo pip3 install xbstrap
To build the distro which includes the cross toolchain necessary to build kernel and ports, run:
make distro
This step will take a while.
Simply run
make
In Linux, if KVM is available, run with
make run-kvm
In macOS, if hvf is available, run with
make run-hvf
To run without any acceleration, run with
make run